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Yet it’s unmistakably present, and since the movie itself contains sequences that move, in essence, forward and backward — and are the same yet different when you watch them — it functions, in a way, like a kind of cinematic Sator square.

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Granted, your business likely doesn’t bring in the same revenue as Amazon, but you can still work the formula backward from Amazon’s actual revenue, determine what percentage that loss accounts for and then apply that to your revenue.

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Lift is an arrow pointing upward, and drag is one pointing backward.

THE SCIENCE BEHIND HOW AN AIRCRAFT GLIDESBY PETER GARRISON/FLYING MAGSEPTEMBER 3, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE

Police in Buffalo, New York, reported 75-year-old Martin Gugino “tripped and fell” until a video showed officers shoving him backward to the pavement and leaving him bleeding with a fractured skull.

AN OFFICER’S WORD SHOULDN’T BE THE LAST WORDANDREW TAYLORAUGUST 19, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO

The team added backward-facing barbs to the surface of the needles.

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Sol got up, slowly; took a backward step into the yard; filled his lungs, opened his mouth, made his eyes round.

THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN

Then a shower of dirt flew into their faces and both Jolly Robin and his wife tumbled over backward.

THE TALE OF GRANDFATHER MOLEARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY

A like indifference to the position of a picture, and of a letter, has been observed among backward races.

CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY

But they went slowly, with much half-whispered, sullen conferring and many a backward glance at Marius and those with him.

ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI

More than nine-tenths of these were made in Birmingham, and, of course, our tradesmen were not backward with their own specimens.

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

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